35 Beautiful Human Portrait Typography Art Designs

Typography is the art and technique of using and arranging letters, type design, and modifying type glyphs. Type glyphs are created and modified using a variety of illustration techniques. There are many different branches of typography. One of them is the form of portrait making or text art. With the modern tools and software that are readily available such as Photoshop and Illustrator, creative typography has become a great design trend.

It is amazing to see how these creative designers have manipulated font types, sizes, typefaces and wording, combined with imagery to deliver the intended messages. If a picture is said to be worth a thousand words, these typographic portraits could be worth much more.

35 Beautiful Human Portrait Typography Art Designs

Here we showcase 35 of beautiful and creative examples of human portrait typography. These typographic portraits are the works of artists and designers whose creativity and imagination are boundless.

Since typography is a communication method that utilizes a gathering of related subjects and methodologies that includes sociology, linguistics, psychology, aesthetics, and so much more – we aim to educate that there is no single approach within typography that applies to everything. - Shelley Gruendler

Typography Self Portrait

Je T'aime

Steven Paul Jobs

Typography Self-Portrait

Self

Lisa Marie Eva

Jistota

The Joker

WIP - Typography Portrait

A Portrait

We Are Our Past

Britney

Mahatma Gandhi

Clif

Alice

Will i am

Weiland Type

Type Face

Thom Yorke

Text Self Portrait

Self Portrait

Too much pressure

Michael Jackson

Lil Wayne

Joni Mitchell

Jolie

John Lennon

Jimi Hendrix

Typography

Half

Facial

Daniela

M.I.A

Lyric Portrait

Jesus

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There are many possibilities with typography and the only restriction is the imagination of the artists and designers. Have you seen any other great human portrait typography art? What do you think of Typography? Is it becoming a deserving trend now?

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Aidan Huang is a web enthusiast and ingenious blogger who loves all things design, interesting and technology. He is the editor-in-chief at Onextrapixel and have founded several other interesting blogs. Do keep in touch with him on Facebook and follow him on Twitter.